Hitler – Beast of Berlin

Hitler, Beast of Berlin
Film poster
Directed by	Sam Newfield (as Sherman Scott)
Produced by	Producers Releasing Corporation
Written by	Fred Myton
Starring	Roland Drew Steffi Duna Greta Granstedt Alan Ladd
Music by	David Chudnow
Distributed by	Producers Releasing Corporation
Release dates	October 8, 1939 (1939-10-08)
Running time	87 minutes
Country	United States
Language	English
Budget	$100,000

Hitler, Beast of Berlin (1939) was one of the most popular "hiss and boo" films of the World War II era, based on the novel Goose Step by Shepard Traube. The film was the first production of Producers Releasing Corporation. It was recut and released as Beasts of Berlin the same year, having been banned in New York as too inflammatory at the time. It was also reissued in the early 1940s as Hell's Devils.

Plot

A man and his wife lead a German anti-Nazi propaganda literature movement. After an inadvertent betrayal, the husband is thrown into a concentration camp, from which he escapes to Switzerland.

Cast

Roland Drew ... Hans Memling
Steffi Duna ... Elsa Memling
Greta Granstedt ... Anna Wahl
Alan Ladd ... Karl Bach (as Allan Ladd)
Lucien Prival ... Sachs
Vernon Dent ...Lustig
John Ellis ... Gustav Schultz
George Rosener ... Wunderlich
Bodil Rosing ... Frau Kohler
Hans Heinrich von Twardowski ... Storm Trooper Albert Stalhelm
Willy Kaufman ... Herr Kohler
Hans Joby ... Hermann Lippert
Frederick Giermann ... Father Pommer
Crane Whitley ... Klee (as Clem Wilenchick)
Henry Zynda ... Erlich (as Henry von Zynda)

Production notes

Archival footage of Adolf Hitler is included.

Release

The film was released in 1940 as Goose Step.^[1]

References

↑ 'Goose Step' Begins Run Los Angeles Times (1923-Current File) [Los Angeles, Calif] 03 Feb 1940: A7.

External links

Films directed by Sam Newfield

Undercover Men (1934)
Bulldog Courage (1935)
Racing Luck (1935)
Federal Agent (1936)
Ghost Patrol (1936)
Burning Gold (1936)
Lightnin' Crandall (1937)
Trail of Vengeance (1937)
Guns in the Dark (1937)
Doomed at Sundown (1937)
Boothill Brigade (1937)
Ridin' the Lone Trail (1937)
The Fighting Deputy (1937)
The Colorado Kid (1937)
Paroled - To Die (1938)
Thunder in the Desert (1938)
Desert Patrol (1938)
Durango Valley Raiders (1938)
Six-Gun Trail (1938)
The Fighting Renegade (1939)
Hitler – Beast of Berlin (1939)
Marked Men (1940)
I Take This Oath (1940)
Billy the Kid's Gun Justice (1940)
The Mad Monster (1942)
Tiger Fangs (1943)
The Monster Maker (1944)
I Accuse My Parents (1944)
Swing Hostess (1944)
The Lady Confesses (1945)
Apology for Murder (1945)
Rustlers' Hideout (1945)
Outlaws of the Plains (1946)
The Flying Serpent (1946)
Adventure Island (1947)
Jungle Flight (1947)
Money Madness (1948)
The Counterfeiters (1948)
The Wild Weed (1949)
Lost Continent (1951)
Lady in the Fog (1952)
The Gambler and the Lady (1952)
Frontier Gambler (1956)
Last of the Desperadoes (1956)
Wolf Dog (1958)
Flaming Frontier (1958)

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